Ipse per Ausonias Æneïa carmina gentes
Qui sonat, ingenti qui nomine pulsat Olympum,
Mæoniumque senem Romano provocat ore:
Forsitan illius nemoris latuisset in umbrâ
Quod canit, et sterili tantum cantâsset avenâ
Ignotus populi, si Mæcenate careret.
Paneg. ad Pisones.
DEDICATION
TO THE
RIGHT HONOURABLE HENRY RICHARD FOX,
LORD HOLLAND,
OF HOLLAND, IN LINCOLNSHIRE; LORD HOLLAND
OF FOXLEY; AND FELLOW OF THE SOCIETY
OF ANTIQUARIES.